Australian Senate, last sitting of the year. No idea when the Social Media Ban debate is kicking off.

If anyone’s keen, feel free to give a live run-down of anything interesting in this thread.

(sorry about all the edits, just trying to get a decent thumbnail: elevated photo of the Australian Senate)

  • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    21 days ago

    We’re on social media right now. It’s not the big for-profit guys who lose out with that sort of legislation. It’s smaller guys, including those run for the fun of it.

    • NaevaTheRat [she/her]@vegantheoryclub.org
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      21 days ago

      Yeah, and federates socmed can easily assume responsibility for messages by not having mass sign up and moving to a trusted users, largely self hosted base. Lemmy is designed around replacing reddit with all the massive flaws of that.

      I mean tell me you think lemmy.world is contributing to the world haha.

      you could easily assume legal responsibility for what you published under a slightly different model where you only hosted your own content/the content of trusted users.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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        21 days ago

        I mean tell me you think lemmy.world is contributing to the world haha.

        I literally don’t know, because federation issues over the last 12 months or so have meant I never see their content in my feed. But before that? Yes, it definitely was. Certainly more than ML and hexbear. Or Reddit.